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Mar
28
(2005)
New Theme for Blog
Filed under: general.
I’d been using the Kubrick theme since well before WordPress 1.5, when it became the default theme. At first, it was a nice, clean theme that stood out from the rest of the other blogs out there. Now, it’s a nice, clean theme that everyone else is using. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but I’m getting tired of seeing Kubrick everywhere.
I just changed the theme to Wuhan (which I ever so slightly modified), which is based on Kubrick, but also takes some design cues from Macromedia.
I’ll be tweaking it a bit over the next few days (I’m “off” for the week, so I’ve got a bit of time to play with WP while Evan sleeps). I’m not really happy with the header/banner graphic, so that’s where I’ll start. It just looks kinda thrown in there. I want to keep the text background generic enough so that I can switch the background image at will (or randomly, as I was doing with my modified Kubrick theme). And perhaps the banner graphic is too tall… A bit gratuitous now that the tabs are above the banner…
Other than that, I’m pretty happy with Wuhan.
Update: I’ve added in the calls to the extra plugins: Subscribe to Comments, Technorati Tags, and Related Posts. Now to figure out what I want to do with the banner graphic…
You’ve pushed me over the edge– howz about sending me the plug-ins you use?
And question-in MT I used something that created the URL for the permanent entry based on the keywords, and if the keywords were not present, used the first, say 20 chars of the title.. will I be able to do something like that in WP? Trying to preserve old links, or if not, I will just blog anew from a new URL.
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I’ll whip up the list of plugins I’m using, Alan. So far it’s been pretty stable and spam-free (jinx).
Oh, and yes – you can set the “slug” for each post manually if you like – not sure if the MT import preserves that, though… You can use .htaccess and rewrites to make your WP URLs look any way you want, too.
Here’s the list of plugins:
AutoShutOffPlugins – http://wiki.wordpress.org/Auto%20shutoff%20comments
Brian’s Latest Comments – http://meidell.dk/
Bunny’s Technorati Tags – http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/BunnysTechnoratiTags
Kitten’s Spaminator – http://blog.mookitty.co.uk/wordpress/spaminator/
Kitten’s Spam Words – http://blog.mookitty.co.uk/wordpress/spam-words/ (but the page appears to be borked)
Related Entries Plugin – http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/archives/2004/05/26/wordpress-related-entries-plugin/
WP SubscribeToComments – http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/06/03/wp-subscribe-to-comments/
Three Strikes Spam – http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/09/24/three-strikes-and-out-damned-spam-out-i-say/
D’Arcy, new theme looks great … sort of funny that I was playing around with several new themes over the weekend … We seem to have the same wavelength thing going. At any rate the new theme is great and its good to hear you are keeping the spam out. I’m still moderating a few comments here and there, but all in all its been going well. Keep up the good work! Take it easy–>
I found the style/theme before more pleasant, if not perfect. It had some more “whitespace” which made it more pleasant to me reading it. but hey there is also RSS-feed, right? the new theme could perhaps use some brighter colors.
my 2 cent, regards,
helge
Helge, I have to agree with you. I loved the other theme at first (probably because it is new, and I get sick of looking at the same design for too long), but I do prefer the Kubrick-based theme over Wuhan. I’m switching back to my Kubrick theme for now, but will try to tweak it some more when I get a chance.